down at heel in English

adjective down at heel (Brit.)

badly dressed due to lack of money; shabbily dressed ; wearing old clothes or ragged clothes due to lack of money; dilapidated; of run-down look

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1. He had single-handedly turned the Swan from a down-at-heel spit and gob saloon to a down-at-heel success. Sentencedict.com

2. She had a decidedly down-at-heel appearance.

3. The town today is a shabby, down-at-heel place.

4. 8 We ignore the down-at-heel and dissolute as we heartlessly window-shop the boulevards they stumble down.

5. But as any New York schoolboy will tell you, Broadway is not merely half-a-mile of down-at-heel glitz.

6. 20 But as any New York schoolboy will tell you, Broadway is not merely half-a-mile of down-at-heel glitz.

7. A - Arctogaean B - BLOODSUCKING D - DOWN-AT-HEEL E - EMANCIPATORY R - RUBIED R - REPTILOID A - ACTINIAN H - HUNDREDFOLD M - MENINGEAL A - ASPIRING N - NEUTERED Abderrahman means: servant of the merciful one